I agree, Shadow of the Beast blew. All it was good for was sitting on the shelf as a demo in the store to blow away all the poor PC users at the time with it's stunning graphcs and amazing music -- but the gameplay stunk.
If you wanted to play great Amiga games you started off with Dungeon Master, then played Settlers, then moved on to TV Sports Basketball (probably the best Basketball game ever), then played Wayne Gretzky's Hockey (simply amazing), then you dabbled with a little Empire, and topped off the week with some good old turn based warfare with The Perfect General (another brilliant game). Turrican and Turrican 2 were also both fun and had the best Amiga music ever.
But Shadow of the Beast? Bad game, BAD!